Amanda Peet Quotes
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.
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I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them.
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I was an animator for a while early on, but a 2D animator.
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On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little more intimacy than a loud gathering around a big table.
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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising.
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There are not many things in my life I can be absolutely proud of or certain I got right, but one of them is that I've got better as an actor. I've learnt how to do it. And I still have enough energy to do it.
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My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.
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Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.
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If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
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As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a clear conscience.
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There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.
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I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.
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Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch
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Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.
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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
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I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.'
